4179

Forb
Perennial

Non-native: Japan & northeast Asia

Documented growing wild in - NC -

Rare

Look for it on sandy roadsides, dunes, other disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

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Invasive?

This plant may be causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:

• Forest Health Assessment & Applied Sciences Team: New Invaders of the Northeast

 

LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & alternate
Leaf blade densely tomentose

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Disc: Pale yellow
Rays: Absent
Inferior ovary

FRUIT:

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• New Invaders of the Northeast and Northcentral US p089

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Artemisia stelleriana   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Artemisia stelleriana   FAMILY Asteraceae__

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Artemisia stelleriana

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) The genera of Anthemidae in the southeastern US (Arriagada & Miller, 1997)
Artemisia stellerana